Paper hanging



Patented Dec. 10,, 193$ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2 Claims.

When the walls of a room are to be papered to represent rectangular panelling the procedure is at present as follows: The paper-hanger is fur- .nished with strips of paper which have been printed for use as the horizontal top and bottom borders of the wall and which present three 1ongitudinal stripes, two of which are usually the wider apart and form with the intervening space what is termed the ffrieze and two of which form with the intervening space the trim. To panel the wall he will use suitable lengths of the strip comprising the frieze and trim for the top and base portions of the wall to afford the top and bottom sides of. the panel or panels; and

he will also cut from the strip two proper lengths which will each include only the trim and use these two lengths in the spaced relation required for the parti ular panel and vertically arranged to form the sides of a panel. But the corners of each panel require special treatment in order that the two stripes of the trim of each of the top and base lengths and the two stripes of each of its sides shall be so joined as to give the appearance characteristic of panelling, to wit, to produce bands which shall surround the panel space and give the appearance of being endless, and this and other treatment requires great loss of time since it necessitates the paper-hanger cutting out the individual stripes from his stock in fragments of, suitable length and piecing these small and quite narrow lengths together as they are pasted to the wall to form the panel corners besides having in some way to obliterate the trim where it flanks a panel or comes between two panels. 1'

According to this invention the work of forming a panel is very much simplified and expedited, since the paper-hanger has available sections of appreciable size which comprise the corners printed each in complete form and serve also to conceal or obliterate the indicated portions of the trim.

In the drawing,

Fig. 1 shows a fragment of a strip of the wallpaper stock I propose to be used;

Fig. 2 shows a wall panelled in accordance with the invention; and

Fig. 3 shows one of the corner-forming sections.

The strip of printed wall-paper stock shown in Fig. 1 comprises three parallel longitudinal equalwidth stripes I having appropriate spaces between them to form the frieze a and trim b, so much being the portion above the dotted longitudinal line, and four parallel stripes 2 of the same width as the stripes i and having appropriate spaces between them so that the stripes of each pair of stripes will be spaced the same as the closely related stripes i, these being below said dotted line. Also printed on the strip are comerforming bent devices 3 which in the present ex-' 5' ample are formed so as to adapt them to the production of what are known as the broken panels shown in Fig, 2.

Having a strip of this character the paperhanger parts the strip lengthwise and close to 10' the bottom of the trim and uses suitable lengths of the upper portion to form the top and bottom borders in Fig. 2; the stripes I of the trim appear in full at top and bottom of each panel in Fig. 2

but only dotted between the panels because, as 151' will appear, they are concealed when the work is completed.

He also divides the lower portion into suitable lengths which will each include the two pairs of stripes 2 and uses each such length to form the gm adjoining sides of two adjoining panels as also shown in Fig. 2, they having such longitudinal extent as to reach nearly if not quite to the top. and bottom borders. Of course, he may split; each such length between the pairs of stripes 2 25, and apply each part separatelya condition which will be necessary, in fact, where any panel is not flanked by another panel.

The next step is to prepare the corners of. each panel, which is now complete as to its top and 30 bottom and two vertical sides. Each of the devices 3 consists of stripes of the same width as stripes I and 2 and printed to form a square with the stripes forming two adjoining sides thereof prolonged to project beyond those forming the 35 other two adjoining sides, as at 3a; the latter stripes may also project somewhat beyond the first two adjoining sides, as at 3b. Preferably these devices are printed on the strip in pairs with the two longer stripes of the devices in each 40 pair in alinement with, and with their portions 3a projecting toward each other, the other two longer stripes (of course parallel) being spaced apart a distance equal to the spacing between the outermost stripes 2 plus twice the spacing 45 between the members of each pair of stripes 2.

The paper-hanger then cuts from the stock strip a section (Fig. 3) comprising one of such pairs of devices 3 and pastes it directly on the border (thus partially concealing it as stated) to 50 form the two adjoining corners of two adjoining panels, as at the top or bottom right or left of the complete or middle panel or the adjoining point of either of the panel fragments shown in Fig. 2; in cutting out such portion he may do so 55 on the dotted lines in Fig. 3 and. elsewhere close to the exterior portion of the outline of each device 3. In pasting the section in position it is arranged with its length extending horizontally and the horizontal short stripes of the two devices are made to aline with the inner stripes I forming the top (or bottom) of the panel and the vertical short stripes of. saiddevices made to aline with the inner vertical stripes 2 of the two panels. The projections 3a; are long enough to reach to the outer stripes 2 of the two panels. Such projections and the projections 31) assist in squaring up the sections and insuring the mentioned alinement.

Thus two services are performed by each section, to wit, the adjoining corners of two panels are formed and the continuity of the trim-forming stripes I is interrupted, which of course is essential to produce the desired efiect. When the corners are formed each panel has a margin consisting of two bands which to the eye appear endless the same. as when the panels are formed by the paper-hanger in the customary way.

If the panel is so located that another panel does not flank it the mentioned section may be divided to form smaller sections each having but one of said devices and only one of such smaller sections used, as will be obvious.

I show no ornamentation of the bands, such being purely arbitrary and variable according to taste.

Of course they need not be rectilinear or of constant width, as shown. Nor do I wish to be limited to the panels having the broken form shown.

With respect to essentials the invention is concerned on the one hand with the forming of a corner and at the same time concealing the portions of the horizontal strips otherwise present at such corner, and on the other hand with the forming of two adjoining rectangular corners and the concealing of the portions of the horizontal stripes which would otherwise be present at each corner and extend from one to the other of them.

Having thus fully described my invention what 5 I claim is:

1. A decoration for a wall or equivalent surface including a length of sheet material having a pair of longitudinally extending generally parallel stripes, another length of sheet material arranged in substantially the same plane as the firstnamed length and also having a pair of longitudinally extending generally parallel stripes arranged in lines defining angles with the first-named stripes, and a section of sheet material superiml6 posed on the first-named length in concealing relation to the portions or" the stripes of such length adjacent and at one side of the apices of said angles and having a pair of bent stripes respectively connecting the remaining portions of the first-named with the second-named stripes.

2. A decoration for a wall or equivalent surface including a length of sheet material having a pair of longitudinally extending generally parallel stripes, other lengths of sheet material arranged in substantially the same plane as the first named length and each having a pair of longitudinally extending generally parallel stripes arranged in lines intersecting and defining angles with the first-named stripes, and a section of sheet material superimposed on the first-named length concealing relation to the portions of the stripes of such length extending from apex to apex of said angles and having a pair of bent stripes respectively connecting the remaining 5 portions of the first-named with the second- V named stripes.

' GEORGE LISS. 

